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In This Issue… AAI Councillors Visit Capitol Hill, Extol Value of NIH Research See page 3 N FASEB Celebrates Its Centennial 12 AAI Looks Back—The 1918–1919 In This Issue… on Capitol Hill Influenza Pandemic 2 2012 AAI Election Results N NCATS Forms Industry Partnership 14 2012 AAI Annual Meeting Highlights N Does Your Degree Impact Your ™ 3 Focus on Public Affairs: 22 IMMUNOLOGY 2012 Sponsors NIH Funding Prospects? N AAI Holds Special Session on 24 Grant & Award Deadlines N New Dual Use Research Policy NIH Peer Review 28 Meetings Calendar N NIH Director Collins on TV N AAI Research Advocacy Program Engages 5 Key Partners 7 2012 AAI Advanced Immunology Cover Image: Course Program N FY 2013 NIH Funding Bill Clears Galacidalacidesoxiribunucleicacid Senate Committee 8 Members in the News See page 3 for details. 2012 AAI Election Results AAI congratulates the following members on their election to offices and committees for terms commencing July 1, 2012, and extends a sincere thanks to all candidates for their willingness to run and serve if elected. President (2012–2013) Nominating Committee The American Association Gail A. Bishop, Ph.D. (2012–2013) of Immunologists Carver College of Medicine Pamela S. Ohashi, Ph.D., F.R.S.C., Chair 9650 Rockville Pike Distinguished Professor of Microbiology Senior Scientist and Director Bethesda, MD 20814-3994 and Internal Medicine and Holden Immune Therapy Program Tel: 301-634-7178 Chair of Cancer Biology Ontario Cancer Institute Fax: 301-634-7887 University of Iowa Michael Croft, Ph.D. E-mail: [email protected] www.aai.org Vice-President (2012–2013) Professor and Head, Division of Marc K. Jenkins, Ph.D. Immune Regulation Member Services La Jolla Institute for Allergy Distinguished McKnight Tel: 301-634-7195 and Immunology University Professor E-mail: [email protected] Center for Immunology and JoAnne L. Flynn, Ph.D. Department of Microbiology Professor, Department of Microbiology The Journal of Immunology University of Minnesota Medical School and Molecular Genetics Tel: 301-634-7197 E-mail: [email protected] Secretary-Treasurer (2012–2015) University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine www.jimmunol.org/ Mitchell Kronenberg, Ph.D. Richard M. Locksley, M.D. President and Chief Scientific Officer Investigator, Howard Hughes Council La Jolla Institute for Allergy Medical Institute President and Immunology Sandler Distinguished Professor Gail A. Bishop, Ph.D. Departments of Medicine and Councillor (2012–2016) Microbiology and Immunology Vice President Wayne M. Yokoyama, M.D. University of California, San Francisco Marc K. Jenkins, Ph.D. Investigator, Howard Hughes Mark J. Shlomchik, M.D., Ph.D. Past President Medical Institute Leslie J. Berg, Ph.D. Levin Professor of Medicine and of Professor of Laboratory Medicine Pathology and Immunology and Immunobiology Secretary-Treasurer Washington University School of Yale School of Medicine Mitchell Kronenberg, Ph.D. Medicine Program Committee (2012–2015) Councillors Awards Committee (2012–2015) Shane Crotty, Ph.D. Linda A. Sherman, Ph.D. Dan R. Littman, M.D., Ph.D. Cheong-Hee Chang, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Division of Arlene H. Sharpe, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Department of Microbiology Vaccine Discovery Wayne M. Yokoyama, M.D. and Immunology La Jolla Institute for Allergy University of Michigan Medical School and Immunology Ex Officio Councillors Jeremy M. Boss, Ph.D. Finance Committee (2012–2015) Erika L. Pearce, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of M. Michele Hogan, Ph.D. Andrea J. Tenner, Ph.D. Pathology and Immunology Leo Lefrançois, Ph.D. Professor and Associate Dean Washington University School of Medicine Paul E. Love, M.D., Ph.D. for Research School of Biological Sciences Publications Committee Executive Director University of California, Irvine (2012–2016) M. Michele Hogan, Ph.D. Ann J. Feeney, Ph.D. www.aai.org/ Professor, Department of Immunology and About/Departments-Staff Microbial Science The Scripps Research Institute Thank you to all members who invested in their profession and demonstrated their commitment to the AAI mission by voting in the election this year. 2 AAI Newsletter July/August 2012 FOCUS ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS AAI Holds Special Session on NIH Peer Review n May 5, 2012, the AAI Committee on Public OAffairs hosted a special session, NIH Peer Review: Understanding the New System, at IMMUNOLOGY 2012™ in Boston. The session provided attendees with an insider view of the current state of peer review at NIH and a look at how the peer review system may evolve in the coming years. of recruiting researchers to serve on study sections and discussed ways that CSR is making it easier for researchers to participate, including conducting more electronic reviews and holding one meeting a year on the West Coast. Nakamura acknowledged the concerns he has heard from AAI and others about the elimination of the A2 application. He noted that CSR is continuing to discuss amended applications, including whether the A2 should be reinstated or whether all amended applications should be eliminated (i.e., accept only NIH peer review session speakers Daniel Rotrosen, Richard “new” applications). Nakamura, Elizabeth Kovacs Daniel Rotrosen described the role of NIAID in The session, which was chaired by Derry NIH peer review, including how program officers at Roopenian, Ph.D., chair of the AAI Committee on NIH institutes can provide assistance to NIH grant Public Affairs (CPA), featured three guest speakers: applicants. Among other things, program officers can Richard Nakamura, Ph.D., acting director of the NIH tell researchers more about the review of their original, Center for Scientific Review (CSR); Daniel Rotrosen, unfunded application if they plan to revise and M.D., director of the Division of Allergy, Immunology, resubmit. Program officers also represent applicants and Transplantation at the National Institute of Allergy before the NIAID Advisory Council. and Infectious Diseases (NIAID); and Elizabeth Kovacs, Finally, Elizabeth Kovacs led a robust question- Ph.D., chair of the AAI Subcommittee on Peer Review and-answer period, which featured much discussion and Grant Submission. about the A2 application. When asked about the 1–9 Richard Nakamura’s presentation focused on the scoring system, Nakamura acknowledged that he has role of CSR in NIH peer review. He explained that CSR heard a number of concerns about this issue, receives all grant applications submitted to NIH but and, when pressed about why CSR can’t go back to a reviews only about 70 percent of those applications. 1–50 scoring system, Nakamura said that CSR might The rest are reviewed by individual institutes and have to consider returning to this scale. centers at NIH. He also talked about the challenge Continued on next page About the Cover: Also referred to as Homage to Crick Galacidalacidesoxiribunucleicacid and Watson (Discoverers of DNA), the painting reflects Salvador Dalí’s intense interest in science, beginning with (1962–1963) Oil on canvas 1 Planck’s quantum theory in 1940. By the early 1960s, Dalí 120 x 161 /2 inches was fascinated by genetics for the possibility of discovering © Salvador Dalí. Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí, an intelligent design at work in the universe. This canvas, (Artist Rights Society), 2011 painted early in his “Nuclear Mysticism” period (1962 to 1978), is the artist’s tribute to Francis Crick and James D. Watson for Collection of the Salvador Dalí Museum, Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, 2011. discovering the double helix structure of desoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The name of the painting incorporates a play on the names of the artist and his wife, Gala, whose back-turned figure displays prominently in the work. www.aai.org AAI Newsletter 3 FOCUS ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS (continued) AAI Research Advocacy Program Brings Five Key Advocacy Partners to IMMUNOLOGY 2012™ AI hosted its third Research Advocacy Program A(RAP) on May 7, 2012, at the IMMUNOLOGY 2012™ meeting in Boston. The RAP supports the attendance of policy leaders from relevant patient RAP participant Martha Nolan (left) speaking advocacy organizations and foundations at a special to meeting attendees about scientific and program, which provides them opportunity to learn funding opportunities with the Society for Women’s Health Research about basic immunology, meet and hear from leading researchers, discuss policy issues of mutual concern, and develop relationships with AAI and each other. This year, AAI was pleased to host representatives from the American Academy of Pediatrics; the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America; The Lymphatic Research Foundation; the Society for Women’s Health Research; and Zero—the Project to End Prostate Cancer. The fact that this year’s RAP participants had diverse advocacy goals and strategies allowed for an interesting discussion. The program featured presentations on basic immunology by members of the AAI CPA. The speakers (Clifford Harding, M.D., RAP participant James Baumberger (right) speaking to Ph.D., Introduction to the Immune System; Susanna meeting attendees interested in the pediatric research Greer, Ph.D., Overreactions of the Immune Response; Lori Covey, Ph.D., Harnessing the Immune System to A highlight of the program was its “Meet the Fight Cancer; Elizabeth Kovacs, Ph.D., Immunology Advocacy Partners” roundtable session, during Research: Challenges and Opportunities) effectively which representatives from each of the participating communicated how the immune system relates to groups were available to talk with meeting attendees the diseases of concern to each of the participating about their organizations, including any research organizations. and funding opportunities that might be available. Senate Committee Increases NIH Budget for FY 2013; House Operating Under Lower Spending Levels he Senate Appropriations Committee approved The Senate Appropriations Committee bill Tits fiscal year (FY) 2013 appropriations (funding) earmarks much of the $100 million increase by bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human providing an additional $56.5 million to the National Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor- Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), HHS) on June 14, 2012, by a vote of 16-14, on a party for a total NCATS budget of $631.3 million.
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